A variety of other retailers appear to be getting units in stock after a quick Google search of manufacturer part PDFM9L-BX1-EN-NT. The September 5th release date would seem to fit into Parallels’ schedule. Previous releases were:

Parallels has traditionally allowed users who’ve bought within 2 weeks of release a free upgrade to the new version but no such policy has yet been announced for this version. (Update: Here’s Parallels Tech Guarantee saying if you buy after August 15th (now) you are covered for a free upgrade when V9 comes out.) If you are interested in purchasing Parallels now (and it is a GREAT product), we recommend downloading a free 30-day trial of Parallels Desktop 8 which would conclude after the above early September update, guaranteeing you wouldn’t need to pay extra for an update to v9.

If Parallels 9 is indeed coming out soon, you can bet we’ll have a full review of the product and/or any iOS accessory products, should such products exist, as soon as they are available.

As long as Parallels 8 continues to work with the upcoming Mavericks I see no reason to upgrade. I’ve paid for versions 4 thru 8 and haven’t had any recent features added that I’ve utilized. I’m fine with staying on 8, but if by some strange reason they decide to not update Parallels 8 to work with Mavericks, then I’ll be off to my local torrent site for version 9.

I am so happy with Parallels 8 that I would update just to support this company. It has made my life so much easier when developing software for both Mac and Windows. Its best feature is the ability to use the Bootcamp partition when running in Mac OS which saves a ton of disk space. I am looking forward to reading about the new features. Tip: Get IconRestorer for Windows to save the location of your desktop icons when the screen changes sizes.

I’d LOVE to take advantage of Parallels, but Parallels 7 only caused problems on my iMac; ran sooooo slowly and seemed to big down the memory even after completely shutting Parallels down. Granted, my iMac has an i5 processor with 4GBs if RAM. What are the lowest specs in which Parallels should work well? …or are there any other hints that would help me avoid this? Thanks for any input!

a few weeks ago, there was an offer on this site which contains parallells 8.
I bought it because I thought it was a great deal.
Today I saw this post about parallells 9. So I want to give a well meaned “FU C K You” to the 9to5mac team for let me buy this old sh*t